Re: is strlen()'s read-4-bytes-ahead a standard?

2010-07-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:41:23 +0200, deeptec...@gmail.com deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: Xin LI wrote: On 2010/07/15 15:38, deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: Some C implementations use the read-4-bytes-ahead technique to speed up strlen(). Does the C standard state anything about strlen() being allowed

Re: I Love FreeBSD!

2010-02-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:16:40 -0600, Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz wrote: It was NetBSD http://www.embeddedarm.com/software/arm-netbsd-toaster.php Yes, that was one. And at least one Linuxen did the same thing. I guess if we want someone can say who was first, but it's no big deal to me. It

Re: Recommendation

2010-02-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:18:00 -0500, Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what/where is the best playlist driven audio player with a graphical UI ... there's too large a selection (both audio and multimedia dirs) for any reasonable manual search, and

Re: Recommendation

2010-02-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:18:41 -0800, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: On Tue 02 Feb 2010 at 14:34:42 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I've been trying Rhythmbox too lately. It also recognizes IDv3 tags, has playlist support, podcast download and archive support, last.fm integration

Re: My whitespace style

2009-04-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:48:12 +0200, deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: Could you please give me a (preferrably widely used) example of columnizing calls which cross different levels of indentation? It's not so uncommon as it may initially seem... I've seen switch() cases in several programs indented

Re: UTF as Filename Extension

2009-01-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:43:01 -0800, Jason C. Wells j...@highperformance.net wrote: Here is a simple discussion that is probably more complex than I'd like it to be. Is there any way to enforce a UTF-8 encoding of a file, perhaps by filename extension? Could such an encoding solve cross

Re: FreeBSD 7

2008-07-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:53:27 -0400, Allen Kenner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been hearing a lot of good things about FreeBSD 7 and so I finally downloaded it as the latest version I had was like 6.2 or something. Seems nice. Does anyone know when the next time The Complete FreeBSD book is

Re: Nothing serious

2008-06-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:53:11 +0200, Bastian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, my name is Bastian, I come from Germany and just want to introduce myself. Im 15 years old, and I use Linux on my Laptop and FreeBSD on my Server. Welcome Bastian :-) I hope you find a lot of interesting and

Re: on content versus presentation [ was: Re: Why the FreeBSD license will not be changing ]

2008-03-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-03-15 13:23, KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Jason C. Wells wrote: jonathan michaels wrote: we all use the 'lingua franca' at different levels of usability for all and different levels of competance for all and various differnt levels of the 'human'

Re: What's up with the symlinks in the 7.0-RC2 ISO images?

2008-02-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-02-15 14:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Well, someone might want to look at the doc CD on Windows (e.g if he's offline and needs to loo at the docs before installing FreeBSD). Or maybe someone might want to make a FreeBSD-7.0-RC2 DVD, and a FreeBSD installation is

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-02-03 07:33, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:13:05AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2008-02-03 01:01, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:28:48AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-02-02 04:37, Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love how FreeBSD does things like this for historical reasons, I love reading about the History, which is why I bought that DVD 20 years of Berkeley UNIX with Marshall. Great DVD and very good if you're a UNIX history buff. sounds like a

Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

2008-01-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-01-20 23:24, Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Fair point. I think that 120 'article-like' additions to our existing article collection stand a pretty good chance of including a *lot* of useful material. It would be a bit silly to reject an offer like

Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

2008-01-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-01-18 17:27, Lars Engels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:34:33PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: If you mean by disconnected the people who appear once and ask something that can be answered by telling them to read a certain chapter in the handbook or one of the 120

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-12-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-28 18:07, Sunnz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I LOVE TOP POSTING!!! 2007/11/26, Fintan Gaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip long quote] Thanks for sharing that. You didn't really need to include a long quote beneath your text to let us know, however ;-)

Re: filesystem timestamps and their usage

2007-08-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-08-19 17:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's talk about file system timestamps. What kind of timestamps are there currently, and what are they used for? (or what new timestamps would be needed/beneficial, or whatever.) Currently I can think of only two: 1. data_time: The last time the

Re: Where software meets hardware..

2007-07-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-06-21 14:33, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: I have a cousin who's taking up a programming course. He doesn't have background with programming nor an in depth understanding of how the computer works. [...] [snip excellent material by Oliver] At

Re: Seeking Monsieur Joliet

2007-04-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-04-14 17:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition (or perhaps as a consequence) Joliet really screws up file permissions, flags, UID/GID. Joliet doesn't care about any of these, it's simply an extension of ISO 9660 which allows names of up to 64 UCS-2 characters. If you want

Re: beastie detected

2007-03-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-03-06 10:57, Guido van Rooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://i6.tinypic.com/2hpod9j.jpg Haha! Fantastic picture :) ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Announce: FreeSBIE-2.0-RELEASE available!

2007-01-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-01-16 02:22, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/16/07, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-01-15 21:21, Matteo Riondato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeSBIE 2.0-RELEASE (codename Clint Eastwood) is based on the fresh FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, both in terms of sources

Re: Venting my frustration with FreeBSD

2006-12-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-12-11 12:00, Jason C. Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is, how big an overhaul FreeBSD needs for a jump start to becoming of interest in the areas where performance scalability matter? Easy! A dragonfly sized overhaul. :) Maybe, or maybe not.

Re: My weird login names

2006-11-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-12-01 03:41, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/06, Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. BTW, what info{farmer,sat} mean? You can reply in private and in Russian. ;) OK, since you ask, it might as well go down in history ;-) Hi Andrew, Thanks for this

Re: can't query PR database

2006-11-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-11-04 18:03, Simon L. Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006.11.03 19:05:13 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-11-02 18:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi: (502) The proxy server could not handle the request GET /cgi/query-pr

Re: can't query PR database

2006-11-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-11-02 18:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi: (502) The proxy server could not handle the request GET /cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi. Reason: Could not connect to remote machine: Connection refused This must have been a temporary, transient

Re: Reason #328 why I love FreeBSD...

2006-02-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-17 10:22, Sten Daniel S?rsdal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hamell, Rick (ACS) wrote: And, Quick Format just destroys and rebuilds the FAT on Windows. It doesn't reformat every block on the hard drive (which use to be a big problem, but according to Microsoft isn't any longer.) I don't

Re: SCP!

2005-12-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-12-12 16:48, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sort of like french kissing your sister (which I *don't* know from experience, but it's an occasionally used comparison here in the US) ... (ugh!) People who live in the US have a very strange way of using parallelisms; I know that